Dredd (2012)

[Leigh S]

And an episode of Judgement Day

[Stan]

They're starting the marketing before the film is shot, that's how big.

It's kinda funny how the Robocop guys were lavished with billions for a remake of a popular film, yet the Dredd peeps are given pennies to reboot a franchise widely acknowledged to have had a poor first crack. Though I suppose it helps when you consider the former will be more sanitised in terms of ultra-violence while the latter will crank it up.

I understand it's a little more complicated than that but it's funny how things turn out.

[Steve Green]

Well, it did have 2 sequels, live action and animated series, mini-series as well as the rest of the merchandise.

It's got more of a proven franchise potential than Dredd has.

[JOE SOAP]

Yep, RoboCop was a massive critical and commercial success, the main reason it's getting pushed for a reboot otherwise it probably wouldn't be happening.

[Bubba Zebill]

/quote]

It's kinda funny ...

It's kinda funny because it came from DREDD.

[CYCLOPZ]

If Dredd  does become the first in a long running series, Karl Urban will never get too old for the role. He could theoretically play Dredd into his sixties. Wishful thinking.

Has anyone played a role in a film series for so long? Bruce Willis is getting there with Die Hard..

[vzzbux]

If Dredd  does become the first in a long running series, Karl Urban will never get too old for the role. He could theoretically play Dredd into his sixties. Wishful thinking.

Has anyone played a role in a film series for so long? Bruce Willis is getting there with Die Hard..

Until they do a reboot.




V

[MR. ELIMINATOR]

They should make it so it moves with real time like the comic. So a sequel would be set however many years it took to make after the events of this one. Though I don't think this specifies what the date is, and doesn't look like it would need to be continued in another film.

[MR. ELIMINATOR]

Though I would definitely like to see more then 3.

[The Sherman Kid]

Yep, RoboCop was a massive critical and commercial success, the main reason it's getting pushed for a reboot otherwise it probably wouldn't be happening.

It wasn't a 'critical success'. Terrible film that ripped off Dredd as those who made it admited.

[JOE SOAP]

Yep, RoboCop was a massive critical and commercial success, the main reason it's getting pushed for a reboot otherwise it probably wouldn't be happening.

It wasn't a 'critical success'. Terrible film that ripped off Dredd as those who made it admited.

Maybe for you it wasn't a critical success but most critics in 1987 -even Roger Ebert- gave it a positive review and still do.

[blackmocco]

Yep, RoboCop was a massive critical and commercial success, the main reason it's getting pushed for a reboot otherwise it probably wouldn't be happening.

It wasn't a 'critical success'. Terrible film that ripped off Dredd as those who made it admited.

It was a critical success.

[blackmocco]

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1017712-robocop/

[Steve Green]

Keep telling yourself that - just because you don't personally like it doesn't make it true...


From what I remember it got fairly positive reviews like this one.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19870717/REVIEWS/707170301


and over time gets a pretty good rotten tomatoes review

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1017712-robocop/

[JOE SOAP]

Some old reviews at the time:



http://www.metacritic.com/movie/robocop/critic-reviews